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Quotes by Philosopher
"Dream by making and make by dreaming."
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"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."
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"Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity."
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"Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one."
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"This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe."
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"In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on."
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"In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings."
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"Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death."
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
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"Your mind is a ship, it can sail across the universe as long as you don't allow negative thoughts to sink it."
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"Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere."
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"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."
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"Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth."
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"Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature!"
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"The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!"
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"An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!"
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"In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere."
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"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
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"Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!"
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"I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ----------- and wanted to shoot myself."
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"Even in silence a heart can scream."
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"If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!"
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"There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite."
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"With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias."
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"God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
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"When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference."
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"All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth."
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"Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner."
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"For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell."
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"You don't have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near, it has been preparing for it all of its life."
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"India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration."
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"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
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"Works from the soul transcend works from the mind."
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"A person whose desires and impulses are his own-are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture-is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character."
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"I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance."
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"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."
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"For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak."
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"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."
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"Die to the past every moment. You remain fresh and alive."
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"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
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"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
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"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."
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"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
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